Need a stock for longer arms, suggestions

[The Tiger]

My buddy is a gorilla with long arms. When he holds his Winchester 1300 it looks like he's holding a Youth gun.

Any suggestions?

[BigDogatPlay]

When he mounts the gun to his shoulder, is there more than two finger widths between the knuckle of his firing hand thumb and his nose? If yes, and assuming he is mounting the gun properly, then he maybe can use a bit more length. That can largely be accomplished on a wood stock with a somewhat thicker butt pad and / or use of spacers between the stock and the pad. It often doesn't take a lot of change, one way or another, to completely alter how the gun fits.

I'm almost 6-5 with pretty long arms and adding 3/16 to a factory Remington 870 / 1100 / 11-87 stock dials it right in for me.

[The Tiger]

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, he's 6'4". Maybe its not as bad as he thinks.

Where can you find spacers? His 1300 has the composite stock? Will that matter?

[BigDogatPlay]

Synthetic stocks are sometimes more problematic, particularly when it comes to shortening. Adding length with spacers presumably wouldn't be hard. Might raise the question in the gunsmithing forum and see where it goes.

Stock spacers are available through Midway, Brownell's, etc.

ETA: Choate makes a stock set for Winchester guns that have three spacers and a pad to make it to varying lengths between 13 and 14 inches, but if a factory stock (probably 14 or so inches) is too short, then that won't do.

[alfred1222]

ya most stocks have extenders, they really help. i have some for my 870

[The Tiger]

Synthetic stocks are sometimes more problematic, particularly when it comes to shortening. Adding length with spacers presumably wouldn't be hard. Might raise the question in the gunsmithing forum and see where it goes.

Stock spacers are available through Midway, Brownell's, etc.

ETA: Choate makes a stock set for Winchester guns that have three spacers and a pad to make it to varying lengths between 13 and 14 inches, but if a factory stock (probably 14 or so inches) is too short, then that won't do.

I'll check Midway etc.

If it comes down to it, I'm sure he wouldn't mind buying a complete wood stock to make it feel right to him as well.

Thanks

[PEZHEAD265]

As a kid I was told the way to check if the length of pull is good for you was to place the stockin the bend of the elbow in your shooting hand and your index finger[trigger finger] should be in the right place to pull the trigger.

[BigDogatPlay]

As a kid I was told the way to check if the length of pull is good for you was to place the stockin the bend of the elbow in your shooting hand and your index finger[trigger finger] should be in the right place to pull the trigger.

A very old method that doesn't tell a true story. It can give a rough idea but we don't shoot with the gun mounted to the bend of our elbow.

A precise fitting, on a try gun, is the best way to go. But that's sometimes very spendy. The quickest way I know is, working with a friend, to get the gun mounted correctly on your shoulder and drop your cheek down to the stock as if you were firing. Assuming you have the gun correctly mounted and you are seeing the sight correctly if there is less than two fingers width between your firing hand thumb and your nose, the stock may be too short. If there is more than three fingers width the stock may be too long.

If too long or too short, then the services of a gunsmith who knows how to work with stocks should be looked into. There is always at least one hanging just about every club.